The Monkey, Osgood Perkins' follow up to this year's horror hit Longlegs, gets an official new poster from NEON today with a rather ominous, yet precise, message.
Releasing in theaters on February 21, 2025, The James Wan-produced The Monkey stars Theo James (The White Lotus), Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black), Elijah Wood (The Lord Of The Rings), Christian Convery (Sweet Tooth), Colin O’Brien (Wonka), Rohan Campbell (Halloween Ends) and Sarah Levy (Schitt’s Creek).
Based on a short by Stephen King from his 1985 collection Skeleton Crew, The Monkey follows:
…twin brothers Hal and Bill discover their father’s old monkey toy in the attic, a series of gruesome deaths starts occurring all around them. The brothers decide to throw the monkey away and move on with their lives, growing apart over the years. But when the mysterious deaths begin again, the brothers must reunite to find a way to destroy the monkey for good before it takes the lives of everyone close to them.
After the huge success of Longlegs and its wickedly creepy marketing campaign, it's no real surprise that Perkins would partner for NEON for his next feature.
However, as the good folks at Bloody Disgusting revealed previously, that Perkins has been quick to let us know that The Monkey differs incredibly in tone and style from the Nic Cage-starring serial killer thriller:
“It’s gonna feel more like Misery or Creepshow or Gremlins or American Werewolf. It couldn’t be less like Longlegs. To me, if you’re gonna make a movie about a toy monkey, you can be serious about it. But so much of King is funny and nostalgic feeling.
So we tried to make a movie that felt a little bit more like something from the late ’80s – ’90s. It’s sorta like, if Robert Zemeckis had just like a little bit of acid and made a Stephen King picture about a monkey toy.”
In classic NEON fashion, The Monkey‘s official new poster keeps much of the movie in the dark, giving us only another look at that ghastly monkey and the morbid reminder that “Everybody dies. And that's fucked up.”
Whether or not this tagline reveals outcome for the characters of The Monkey or not remains to be seen, but we await the movie with baited breath and will bring you The Monkey‘s next teaser, expected to be dropping next week sometime.
